Re: [libreoffice-users] attempting to find an answer and instead ...

On Thu, 4 Oct 2012, anne-ology wrote:

>       Thanks for this explanation.
>
>       Just thinking ... before the 'phone, folks would ring the doorbell
> ...
>                                 after the 'phone, folks would ring the
> 'phone ...
>                                    so I guess ping is the cross between
> ring and pc -
>       interesting that's it's ping rather than p-ring p-ring p-ring ...

quotation from "List of computer term etymologies" 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_term_etymologies>

'The author of ping, Mike Muuss, named it after the pulses of sound 
made by a sonar called a "ping". Later Dave Mills provided the 
backronym "Packet Internet Groper".'

probably better to look things up than speculate.

although not sure how reliable wikipedia is. I recall WWII movies 
where the crew of submarines suffered silently through 'pings' from 
enemy warships on the surface trying to locate them.

F.

> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Girvin R. Herr <girvin.herr@sbcglobal.net>wrote:
>
>
> > Joel Madero wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> >
> > > A ping is just a quick email (or IRC message, etc...) that says "hey, any
> > > updates", some users even just say "ping" in IRC basically saying "hey,
> > > you
> > > around?"
> > <snip>
> > Joel,
> > "ping", another overloaded word:
> >
> >    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Ping<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping>
> >
> > But those of us in the computer networking field assume:
> >
> >    Ping, a computer network tool used to test whether a particular host
> >    is reachable across an IP network
> >
> > Colloquially, it is used as you define it - to send a quick message to
> > someone to see what's going on in their life. As in
> > "I haven't heard from him for a while - I'm going to ping him to see what
> > he's up to."
> > Girvin Herr

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